Spatial Autocorrelation

In recent years, data science and analytics have emerged from the backroom to become mission critical for many companies. Linear regression and its many variants are foundational to that effort and its core assumptions are commonly known and understood. The basic...

Evaluating Retail Chain Risk Profiles

We recently asked our friends at ChainXY (www.chainxy.com) for the location data on selected retail chains in Texas in order to undertake some comparative analysis of the site signatures and risk profiles of each. The locational strategies of each retail chain have...

The Kansas City Boom

Recently, I’ve found myself at the center of the biggest pop culture story of the year, both demographically and geographically. Demographically speaking, I fall into the coveted 18-35 year old female age group, and geographically, my family has recently relocated to...

Data on Demand

In recent years, many companies have embraced geospatial data and analytics by combining business analytics tools with data from disparate sources. Demographics can play a role that extends well beyond the site location analysis into a great range of applications. At...

Puerto Rico Data Preview

With the 2023B release, AGS will be expanding our demographic estimates to include Puerto Rico! This first release will cover the basics for 2020, which includes most of our core estimates. In total, there are about 730 variables, including some business and daytime...